Rotating Workforce Scheduling in MiniZinc https://lobste.rs/s/vcxqwd #compsci #programming
https://zayenz.se/blog/post/rotating-workforce-scheduling/

Dynamo: amazon's highly available key-value store [2007]

By: Giuseppe deCandia, Deniz Hastorun, M. Jampani, et al.

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/datastores/dynamo-amazons-highly-available-key-value-store.pdf
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7d906f6632f8740b540ce4d710f53ab0f97cfd5b

The Vindication of Bubble Sort https://lobste.rs/s/ugyv1s #compsci
https://entropicthoughts.com/vindication-of-bubble-sort

Michael Vaughn on EXE: Automatically Generating Inputs of Death [PWL NYC]

https://youtu.be/nJYn5KWTUFU?si=ebIKHOz5I3gyIqhT

Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra https://lobste.rs/s/kdqpcq #compsci
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/

Learning Regular Languages with RPNI Algorithm https://lobste.rs/s/lucihi #compsci
https://rahul.gopinath.org/post/2025/10/24/rpni-learning-regular-languages/

Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust via @rk https://lobste.rs/s/82efis #compsci
https://burntsushi.net/transducers/

I’d take many of these!

Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should https://prog21.dadgum.com/210.html

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk [2006]

By: D. Ingalls

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/languages/smalltalk/Design-Principles-Behind-Smalltalk.pdf
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/374463f1237bb89c3c898aec0b88f76c0d98d87e

Modern perfect hashing https://lobste.rs/s/i33fks #compsci
https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-10-23-21-23_modern_perfect_hashing.html

SATisfying Solutions to Difficult Problems via @abnv https://lobste.rs/s/n9cccn #compsci
https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2025/10/22/satisfying-solutions/

Incremental Construction of Minimal Acyclic Finite-State Automata (2000) https://lobste.rs/s/ualmwx #pdf #compsci
https://aclanthology.org/J00-1002.pdf

Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver https://lobste.rs/s/sbmepe #compsci #games
http://www.righto.com/2025/10/solve-nyt-pips-with-constraints.html

Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠
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Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree & Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists

The World's Fastest Scrabble Program (1988) https://lobste.rs/s/v23clg #pdf #compsci #games
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/42411.42420

The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems [2006]

By: B. Fleisch

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/distributed_systems/the-chubby-lock-service-for-loosely-coupled-distributed-systems.pdf
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f470be358519a8b3ed3bb837d20602362ba892f4

Space-Efficient Data Structures for Top-k Completion (2013) https://lobste.rs/s/yuhk4b #pdf #compsci
http://groups.di.unipi.it/~ottavian/files/topk_completion_www13.pdf

Introducing oavif: faster target quality image compression by @gianni https://lobste.rs/s/0entkb #compsci
https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/oavif/

Eluding carnivores: file sharing with strong anonymity [2004]

By: E. Sirer, Sharad Goel, Mark Robson, et al.

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/distributed_systems/eluding-carnivores-file-sharing-with-strong-anonymity.pdf
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9bb51c866d2f182da74872269630a81b0bacc231

The #AI companies are onto me!

#OpenAI recently automated the process of identifying tasks worthy of "slow" #reasoning.

In "Strategic Reflectivism...", I showed how that's key to #intelligence (human or machine).

Now available via audiopaper! https://byrdnick.com/archives/29788/upon-reflection-ep-16-strategic-reflectivism